Technical notes on various topics

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News and Links

hosting one's own email is no longer possible? - CFenollosa

why encrypted backups are a central privacy issue - Cryptography Engineering

an Amazon Web Services perspective on blockchain - TBray

(as the Australian Stock Exchange writes off its $165 million blockchain project)

a perspective on cyber-security - NCSC

Google has its own in-house desktop Linux distribution - Computerworld [via @phaseit]

For more, see my blog.